Earlier this year, I was commissioned by a couple who live in London to paint a wedding gift. They requested an Nguni bull in a London cityscape for their lounge […]
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The magic of randomness and the strange connectedness of things
One of the most consistent sources of inspiration for my work as an artist, a writer and as a strategist is a blog called Brain Pickings. If you haven’t […]
The Nguni Series
Think pop art meets 18th century English farm animal portraits meets 19th century naturalists’ notebooks meets social history. There’s a certain irony in placing cattle in a cityscape, but then […]
The painted cattle of Africa
A whole lot of bull, being bullish, bulls and bears, bull headed, bull in a china shop. I’ve spent a lifetime drawing horses. Lately, though, I’ve developed a fixation with painting […]